Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.
• Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.
• Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.​​
• Provide technical support and guidance to developers building on our platform.

Competencies/traits: 

• Ability to influence the culture of the entire team with their demeanor, standard of work, knowledge, hustle
• Knows they’re effing good, without being an asshole
• Debatable opinions on the rollup ecosystem and current developments in the Ethereum technical roadmap
• Apparent interest and passion for contributing to the crypto ecosystem
• A bias for startups: constant problem solving, high ownership and accountability, smaller teams

Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years building and maintaining high-availability systems in TypeScript, ideally with experience or interest in Go / Rust.
• 3+ years of experience developing high-availability backend services that interact with real-time cryptocurrency platforms (solvers, relayers, multichain infra, etc.)
• Strong coding skills with a deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and debugging complex distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of Solidity, the EVM, smart contract best practices and current industry patterns especially with applied experience in chain abstraction, bridging technologies, intent/relay networks
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale production systems on the cloud, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Ability to build from 0→1, designing systems from scratch and making critical early technical decisions.
• Passion for modern best practices in backend engineering and Web3, with a desire to actively shape the tech stack as new systems and services are built.
• Strong initiative and ownership, with the ability to drive projects forward autonomously in a fast-moving crypto environment.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Nice-to-haves: 

• Has previously been a Technical Lead
• Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
• Degree in computer science
• Experience with Rust / Go
• Active and demonstrated contributions to open source crypto projects